La Montagne dans l’œuvre de quelques écrivains libanais d’expression anglaise
Lebanese writers in the English language represent their mountains in an ambivalent manner: they use western aesthetic concepts (sublime, picturesque) while setting their representation in an Eastern context of ideological reappropriation of their land, focusing on its cultural and human occupation...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires du Midi
2008-05-01
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| Series: | Anglophonia |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/acs/1275 |
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| Summary: | Lebanese writers in the English language represent their mountains in an ambivalent manner: they use western aesthetic concepts (sublime, picturesque) while setting their representation in an Eastern context of ideological reappropriation of their land, focusing on its cultural and human occupation with a strong opposition between mountain and city dwellers. The mountain is seen as an ambivalent paradise, both a symbol of innocence and of lawlessness. This series of oppositions is a metaphor for the in-betweennness of these authors |
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| ISSN: | 1278-3331 2427-0466 |